2008-09-06

Chuck Canterbury, National President of the Fraternal Order of Police, today announced the organization’s endorsement of Senator John S. McCain III for the office of President.
“The FOP carefully considered the records and the responses of both candidates and, in our evaluation, Senator McCain will provide greater leadership for our country and for our nation’s law [...]

2008-09-05

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, a stock market index used to gauge the performance of American stock exchanges, fell 344.65 at the close of trading Thursday.
The exact reason for the drop is unknown, with different news agencies pointing to different causes. The New York Times cites a rise in unemployment numbers released Thursday by the [...]

2008-09-04

More than 900 criminal aliens, immigration fugitives, and immigration violators have been removed from the United States or are facing deportation today following a three-week enforcement surge by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Fugitive Operations Teams in California.
During the special operation, which concluded late yesterday, ICE officers located and arrested a total of 905 [...]

Project for the Improvement of Child Support Litigation Technology (PICSLT) was an in-depth exploration into the science of child support calculations. The study began rather informally in 1989, on the eve of implementation of what was then a new federal mandate for use of welfare system style formulae extended to all child support cases [...]

2008-09-03

St. Paul, Minnesota—Since the Republican Vice Presidential nomination of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin last week, the media has been buzzing over Palin’s politics, personal life, and how the two mix.
One issue that has seen some press involves Palin, Alaskan State Trooper Mike Wooten and the dismissal of Alaska’s Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan.
Trooper Wooten was [...]

(The following report is based on material obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police.)
A 23-year-old Michigan man was charged last week in federal court for illegally possessing Molotov cocktails, which he allegedly intended to use at the Republican National Convention.
Matthew Bradley DePalma, Flint, Mich., was charged Aug. 30 with one count of possession [...]

The choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as John McCain’s vice presidential running mate has brought a barrage of criticism over the steps leading to her selection.
Within three days of the announcement, the AP, CNN, and the New York Times all published articles casting doubts on the McCain campaign’s vetting process.
McCain’s advisers insist that Palin [...]

2008-09-02

Universal Protection Service, the largest provider of security services to the commercial real estate market in California and one of the nation’s largest uniform protection companies, participated with the San Francisco Fire Department and the United States Army 95th Civil Support Team to conduct a Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) training exercise simulating the release [...]

The United Kingdom-based mobile Linux developers OpenedHand have announced that they have been acquired by the Intel Corporation, merging the Linux company with the Intel Open Source Technology Center.
“We are pleased to announce that OpenedHand Ltd has been acquired by Intel Corporation,” said OpenedHand in a statement it released on the acquisition. “The OpenedHand team [...]

Google announced on Monday that it is launching an open source web browser, dubbed Chrome, to compete with browsers such as Internet Explorer from Microsoft, Firefox from Mozilla, and Safari from Apple.
In a post on the company’s official blog, Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management, and Linus Upson, an engineering director at Google said [...]

2008-09-01

Multiple news agencies, including the New York Times and CNET yesterday suggested that a campaign operative for Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate, worked on the Wikipedia article on her in the 24 hours before the vice presidential candidate was announced. After seeing these allegations, Wikinews decided to investigate the claim further.
The user who [...]

George W. Bush, the President of the United States, has said that he will not attend the 2008 Republican National Convention as a result of Hurricane Gustav.
During a statement made to the press, Bush told reporters: “In light of these events, I will not be going to Minnesota for the Republican National Convention,”. He continued [...]

The Center for Empowered Living and Learning (The CELL) held a reception yesterday in Denver to introduce its inaugural exhibit, entitled “Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere: Understanding the Threat of Terrorism.”
The CELL is a non-profit, non-partisan institution dedicated to educating citizens on the most important issue of our time — terrorism. The exhibit will make [...]

2008-08-31

Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana has ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city ahead of Hurricane Gustav.
Nagin states that residents “need to be scared” in what he calls “the mother of all storms”. Residents are to be out of the city by Sunday evening. Despite the announcement, tens of thousands of people [...]

Hurricane Gustav is predicted to make landfall on the Gulf Coast, having already caused damage in the Carribean. The storm may be raised to Category 5 according to some sources.
At 5:00 p.m. (eastern time) on Saturday, the National Hurricane Center stated that Gustav had sustained winds at least 150 miles per hour and was moving [...]

While the likes of the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and other news organizations have their reporters digging for dirt on Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain’s choice for vice president, their savior-in-waiting Barack Obama is getting a free ride at the expense of truth.
It’s no secret that the denizens of [...]

2008-08-30

United States presidential candidate Barack Obama accepted the United States Democratic Party’s nomination for president Thursday evening at Invesco Field in Denver, Colorado before a crowd estimated to be between 75,000 to 80,000 people.
Obama is running to become the 44th President of the United States. His opponent John McCain will accept the Republican Party’s presidential [...]

As the parliament of Georgia voted to approve closing the nation’s embassy in Moscow and severing diplomatic ties with Russia, officials in the breakaway territory of South Ossetia are stating that their ultimate goal is not independence, but to be absorbed into Russia.
Znaur Gassiyev, the speaker in the parliament of South Ossetia, said today in [...]

Obama and Domestic Terrorist: Ad Campaign Examines the Relationship
by Jim Kouri, CPP’
While GOP Presidential hopeful John McCain introduced his new running-mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, American Issues Project wrapped up its first phase of a television advertising and issue campaign, which called into question the long-standing relationship between Barack Obama and unrepentant 1960’s domestic terrorist, [...]

2008-08-29

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has been selected by United States Presidential candidate John McCain as his vice-presidential running-mate. Even though the announcement is not official, NBC News and others are reporting Palin as the selection citing sources within the McCain campaign.
In introducing Palin, McCain said, “I have found the right partner to stand up to [...]